Gulf Of Mexico Quotes:

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

- Tony Hayward

source: "BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill". Interview with Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.

topic: Ocean, Oil, Water, Oil And Water, Oil Spill

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

- William Faulkner

source: William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.11, Modern Library

topic: Tennessee, Mexico, Memphis, Mississippi, Gulf Of Mexico

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

- Rick Renzi

topic: Summer, America, Energy, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina

This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

- Daniel Yergin

topic: War, Loss, Aggravation, Nigeria, Output

There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream.

- Matthew Fontaine Maury

source: Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.25

topic: Ocean, Sea, Rivers, Arctic, Ocean Exploration

Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

- Jeff Goodell

topic: Oil, Long, Mexico, Refinery, Gulf Of Mexico

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Blue, Sea, People, Gulf Of Mexico

When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.

- Sylvia Earle

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Ocean, Loss, Florida, Shoreline, Bay Area

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Illinois, Years, Two, Delta, Mississippi River

Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico.

- Jay Leno

topic: Running, Water, Car, Gulf Of Mexico

The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.

- David Letterman

topic: Oil, Mexico, Miami, Oil Spill, Gulf Of Mexico

How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal.

- David Letterman

topic: Land, Oil, Mexico, Gulf Of Mexico

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.

- David Letterman

topic: Sea, Oil, Mexico, Oil Spill, Big Oil

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

- David Letterman

topic: Oil, Mexico, Parks, Petroleum, Gulf Of Mexico

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

- David Letterman

topic: Thinking, Ice, Oil, Melting Ice, Oil Spill

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

- Bill Maher

topic: Mexico, News, Today, Gulf Of Mexico

The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.

- Ron Wyden

source: "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

topic: Oil, Cost, Mexico, Gulf Of Mexico

BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: thesaker.is

topic: Thinking, Difficult Situations, Support, Tragic Events, Gulf Of Mexico

The media tries to destroy Republicans who make little faux pas and they start telling everybody how dumb and stupid or uncaring they are. They're so self-absorbed, so selfish and so forth. With Obama, it's always, "There's nothing to see here, because he's a dream of a guy to begin with" and all that. "He missed the Gulf of Mexico? So what! He thinks there are 57 states? Big deal! At least he's trying; at least he cares," is the way it goes.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Dream, Stupid, Selfish, Uncaring, Faux

I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.391

topic: Country, Islands, Florida, Gulf Of Mexico

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Florida, Parent, Backyards, Gulf Of Mexico

Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely established that in its deepest places, for instance, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Earth's crust is devoid of granite stratum. The same may be said quite confidently about the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Could the interpretation of these data be that inland seas were the primary stage of the formation of oceanic basins?

- Vladimir Belousov

topic: Ocean, Sea, Data, Gulf Of Mexico, Granite

The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Sea, Kuwait, Oil, Caspian Sea, Central Asia

Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

- George Bird Grinnell

topic: Lying, Ocean, Views, Mountain Peaks, Gulf Of Mexico

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

- David Letterman

topic: Oil, Bird, Mexico, Petroleum, Oil Spill

There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something like this has ever happened [BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill], and we need to get to the bottom of it, find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think it is very reasonable to continue to drill.

- Haley Barbour

source: "New sensors deployed to gauge oil spill", www.cnn.com. June 13, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Years, Oil, Oil Spill, Gulf Of Mexico

I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.

- Jason Mraz

source: "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

topic: Beach, Sorry, Moving, San Diego, Contamination

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

- Diane Wilson

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Feminist, Mexico, Movement, Gulf Of Mexico

What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature.

- Mirah

topic: Ecosystems, Oil, Knowing, Spilling, Crossover

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

- Henry Louis Gates

topic: Thinking, Land, Cities, Peru, Acapulco

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

- Sylvia Earle

source: "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

topic: Enormous Quantities, Two, Oil, Methane, Gulf Of Mexico

Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

- Lester R. Brown

source: Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

topic: Nitrogen, Farmland, Gulf Of Mexico